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Boy convicted of killing family seeks sentence modification

Nicholas Browning serving four life sentences for killings when he was 15

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Updated: 6:19 PM EST Jan 16, 2014

Boy convicted of killing family seeks sentence modification

Nicholas Browning serving four life sentences for killings when he was 15

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Updated: 6:19 PM EST Jan 16, 2014

TOWSON, Md. —

A man convicted of killing his entire family in 2008 when he was only 15 is asking for his sentence to be modified.

A hearing is scheduled for Friday morning in Baltimore County Circuit Court for Nicholas Browning, 21, who was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to four life sentences in January 2009. Two of the life sentences were ordered to run consecutive to each other. The other two life sentences are concurrent.

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Browning pleaded guilty to killing his father, John; his mother, Tamara; his 14-year-old brother, Gregory; and his 11-year-old brother, Benjamin, when he was 15. All were killed by gunshot wounds to the head in their home in Cockeysville in the early morning hours of Feb. 2, 2008.

Prosecutors said Nicholas Browning used his father's gun to commit the killings. They said he shot his family, spent the night with friends and pretended to discover his family dead the next day.

Nicholas Browning's attorneys filed a motion for a modification of the sentence. A hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Friday.